【Philosophy】African philosophy cannot be a thing
This essay unpacks several arguments about the metaphilosophic nature of African philosophy and charts a way through the problems these arguments enco... [more]
【Philosophy】Fusion Philosophy and Epistemic Injustice
I use the concept of epistemic injustice to think through the practice and methodology of comparative, or fusion, philosophy. I make two related claim... [more]
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Changes in the aims and methods of the philosophy of mind have occurred in recent decades. In particular, computer simulations have emerged as a means of constructing empirically and conceptually defensible theories of mind. This article explores pedagogi
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A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) contributed notably to the foundations of pure and applied mathematics, especially from the late 1890s to the mid 1920s. An algebraist by mathematical tendency, he surveyed several algebras in his book Universal Algebra (1898).
An epistemological basis for linking philosophy and literature
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The present information explosion on the World Wide Web poses a problem for the general public and the members of an academic discipline alike, of how to find the most authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about an important topic. At t
Contemporary environmental ethics - From metaethics to public philosophy
In the past thirty years environmental ethics has emerged as one of the most vibrant and exciting areas of applied philosophy. Several journals and hundreds of books testify to its growing importance inside and outside philosophical circles. But with all
On the boundary of two worlds: Lithuanian philosophy in the twentieth century
Modern Lithuanian philosophy originated as a response to the questions formulated in Russian philosophy - religious, moral, and social. Later it turned to Continental European philosophy, preoccupying itself with German and French existentialism, hermeneu
Relationships of TQM philosophy, methods and performance: a survey in Taiwan
Total quality management (TQM) has been a widely applied process for improving competitiveness around the world. The implementation of TQM usually consists of both TQM philosophy from Deming's 14 points, Juran's ten steps, and Crosby's 14 steps and tec
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In this paper it is argued that risk assessment (RA) should be based on principles of philosophy of science. However, in the field of toxicology and the associated RA this is generally not the case. The aim of this presentation is to demonstrate various p
What is the philosophy of information?
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The principle of equivalence
start from John Norton's analysis (1985) of the reach of Einstein's version of the principle of equivalence which is not a local principle but an extension of the relativity principle to reference frames in constant acceleration on the background of Min
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The replication of Hertz's cathode ray experiments
I reappraise in detail Hertz's cathode ray experiments. I show that, contrary to Buchwald's (1995) evaluation, the core experiment establishing the electrostatic properties of the rays was successfully replicated by Perrin (probably) and Thomson (certai
The limits of information
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Spacetime without reference frames: An application to the velocity addition paradox
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